Election Notes
Election responses from Tim Barker and Sarah Leonard, David Bromwich, Mark Engler, Max Fraser, Ryan Rafaty, Rafia Zakaria, Kevin Mattson, Gary Gerstle, and Benjamin Ross.
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The College Issue and a Discussion on Student Debt
Welcome to Dissent‘s new website! On it, you’ll find our fall issue, with a special section on higher education. Right now, non-subscribers can read Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal’s “From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public …
Remembering Murray Hausknecht, 1925-2012
His commentary was sharp, as much of Dissent is, but I always imagined him writing with a smile on his face, while many of our other writers write with grim determination.
[EVENT] A Dissent Fundraiser and Beach Party!
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Web Letter: Timothy Messer-Kruse Responds to Thai Jones
Thai Jones, clearly discomforted by what my book is—essentially an ideological genealogy of a particular strain of revolutionary anarchism that flared into popularity in the 1880s and died in America with the explosion of the Haymarket bomb—employs the age-old dodge …
[VIDEO] Occupy Tactics: Violence and Legitimacy in the Occupy Movement and Beyond
Last Wednesday, the CUNY Graduate Center hosted a debate between author and journalist Chris Hedges and B. Traven of CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective on violence and “diversity of tactics” in Occupy and other social movements. The debate, moderated by CUNY sociology …
[EVENT] Todd Gitlin on Occupy Nation in Maine
Todd Gitlin is talking about his new book, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, on Tuesday and Wednesday in Maine. “Will there be an Occupy 2.0? Reflections on the roots, spirit, and promise …
Chicago Teachers on Strike
Update (9/10): read Bill Barclay’s background on the strike here. Update (9/12): watch Dissent contributor and editorial board member Joanne Barkan discuss the strike on Al Jazeera English. After unsuccessful negotiations between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, …
Patricia Cayo Sexton Memorial Service
There will be a memorial service for long-time Dissent editorial board member Patricia Cayo Sexton on Sunday, October 14 at 3 p.m. The service will be held at the Grand Hall in NYU’s Global Center, 238 Thompson Street, NY, NY. …
[EVENTS] September Events in NYC
[EVENTS] September Announcements for Dissent
[From the Archives] Milton Friedman’s Inventions
[From the Archives] Milton Friedman’s Inventions
Partial Readings: The New Austerity Games
Partial Readings: The New Austerity Games
Letters 
Out to Lunch Editors: I was struck by the Spring issue dedicated to “Food,” where there were seven articles but not one that addressed the subject of food and hunger or poverty. This extraordinary omission, especially for a leading periodical …
Partial Readings: Rich People Behaving Badly
Partial Readings: Rich People Behaving Badly
[From the archives] A Right to Marry?
[From the archives] A Right to Marry?
